depute
verb (used with object)
to appoint as one's substitute, representative, or agent.
deputing
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present participleof depute.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."
From Time Magazine Archive
At one moment they half resolved on deputing a message to the chamber of the Prince; at another they discussed the propriety of departing in a body.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
Then, instead of deputing ecclesiastics or great dignitaries to present the Emperor's letter to Pius VII.,
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various
She could not bear the idea of deputing to any one the active measures necessary to be taken in order to save Jem.
From Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
This resulted in Dost Mahomed sending his son and heir-apparent, Sardar Ghulam Haidar Khan, to Peshawar, and deputing him to act as his Plenipotentiary in the negotiations.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
